Understanding That The Walk Is Not About You...

2nd Post Today.....

Have you come to the conclusion yet that this walk is not about you?   It's not about what you think or how you feel.   It's not about whether you can or can't.    It's not about whether you are rich or poor.    It's not about whether you can talk or you are slow to speak.  

This walk is about God.   The fact that God is who He said He is.   That He does what He said He will do.   That He has created you to be divine in purpose and unique in nature.   This walk is about doing what He has said.   It's about faith and fulfillment.    It's about standing and operating in your position of authority .... NO MATTER WHAT.  

When you understand.....truly understand.    God can take you from walking to running for Him!

Do You Trust God To Be God?

No matter what's going on....
No matter how you feel....
Do you trust God enough to complete the work?   To complete the healing?  To manifest what is needed?
Faith is your total trust in God no matter what.    No matter how it looks and no matter how you feel.

Even when it doesn't look or feel as though you or the situation is getting better.   You have to trust that God is healer and provider.    You have to let God be God.

Worship For Today....

"Lord Of All Creation"

Ministered By Hillsong  

What About Your Yesterday Are You Taking Into Your Today?

What about your yesterday are you taking into your today?   Are you taking your hurts, pains, and disappointments?    Or are you taking the lessons you have learned?   Are you taking your family and friends in prayer?   Or are you taking your wants, needs, and own desires?

Everything that you do and accomplish today is in some way reflective of your yesterday.     What will you do with yesterday;s accomplishments.......yesterday's failures.......yesterday's encounters.......

Your yesterday is your past.  Today is you new day.   The day that you have to make a difference.   To do it differently.   To love more, to learn more, to reflect more of who He is.

What happened yesterday should be the lesson you learned to help you through today.   It should be as a launching pad.   The thing that launches you into what God would have you to do.   

Your yesterday is just that.....It's over.   It will not come back around.     We have to stop living in past failures, as well as, past  successes.   They were lessons.   A lesson is a period of learning or teaching.   It is a time of preparation.   It was what prepared you for today.     We learn in order to lead.   

The question is .... what have you learned in order to lead someone else into God's best today?

Worship For Today....

"I Will Follow"

Ministered By Chris Tomlin

Will You Be The Light That Cannot Be Hid?

Who will you touch for God today?   Will you make a difference?   Close means to come in contact with.    So who will you come in contact with today and will you make a difference in their lives?  

Will your motivation be for you to get the most out of your day....or to helps someone else get through the day?   

Will your light be minuscule and dim......just enough light for you to see?    Or will it be as a flood light....where it opens up and illuminates everything else around you.  

You have within you the light of revelation......
Will you open up and allow someone else to see through you today?  Will you be a light to see His love?   To see His personality?   To see His provision?   Will they be able to see it today through you?

Will you be the light and the life that can not be hid?

Worship For Today....

"At The Cross"

Ministered By Hillsong

Are You Pressing Through.....You Have To Know The Difference Between The Preliminary And The Eternal....

Stop....to give up....to quit.....to cease movement.
Is that you?   Have you stopped moving forward concerning the things of God?   The life of God?   The love of God?   Have you yielded and quit?   Given up on what you thought "was" because it wasn't turning out the way you "expected"?

God is a gentleman....."gentle" man.     He is not going to push you or force you into anything.   Even when it comes to the things you do for Him.    He's not going to make you worship Him.   Serve Him.   Or even choose Him.    He wants you to press beyond the outward appearance of things into the full knowledge of who He is and what He has done.    He wants you to understand that true life is eternal.   It goes far beyond the here and now.   It goes far beyond the seen.  

We tend to base our lives on the now.   On what is going on now.   On what people are doing now.   When the now is not what matters.    We have to "press past" the now.   We have to recognize and realize the eternal.  Eternal means the things that are valid for all time and unchanging.    That must mean that this present state that we are living in is not our valid state....it is ever changing.    It is an invalid state.  You have to "push past" your present ..... whatever is going on in your now.    Whether it be sickness, disease, hurt, pain, no job, no friend, loss of family, not enough money, etc.   Whatever the complication of your present is  ..... you have to "push past" it in order to get to the eternal state that God has prepared for you.    One thing to note about your present is that it is temporary.....meaning there is an end.   Whatever is going on presently that goes against who God is...... has an expiration date.    It can't last for ever.....because God has already predetermined the things that are eternal.   The things that will last and only the things that line up with who He is will endure.  

When you look at your situation today....look beyond your now.   Look into the heart of God.   Look through His eyes and see the difference between the temporary and eternal.    Know that you are only in the preliminary state.   Preliminary means the event that precedes or the preparation state for something fuller or more important.  

Worship For Today.....

"Let Go"

Ministered By Dwayne Woods & PJ Morton

What Is The "Next" In Your Life?

Next.....
Next means immediately following in time, order, or importance.  

What is next in your life?   What do you do next?   What do you say next?   What is the relevant thing that holds importance in your life?   The thing that you give priority to.   When something is your priority......it is regarded or treated as more important.  

What is it in your life that outweighs everything else?  

Is it God?   Do the things that you give "first" attention to include God?   When you have a need......you want Him to drop everything else and to "attend" to you.   But what do you do?   God's need is that you glorify Him.   Is that priority in your life? Do you lay aside everything else in order to "first" give Him praise? 

What are your priorities when you get up?   What are your priorities as you go about your day?   Do you thank Him painstakingly?   Carefully and diligently .... as though it were a requirement for your life.   Or do you barely thank Him for what He has done and is doing in your life.

Do you take advantage of God's goodness?   His grace?   His mercy?    Do you take for granted His love?   Meaning do you appreciate Him for who He is? 

When you stop to think about what's next in your life....
Understand that your next moment, your next breadth, your next word, your next step......are all gifts from God.  

Look around.....the world is hurting....people are dying......
BUT God chose you.   He chose you to stay and to reflect.   To reveal who He is to a lost and dying world. 

You have been given a position of honor.   Chosen to represent and reflect the King. Will the "next thing" in your life be your obedience to His will purpose and plan?   Will it be you moving into a place of worship?   Will it represent who He is?

The thing about it is....God has given you the power to choose your own "next".   It's up to you to determine what's "next" in your life.  

Worship For Today.....

"I Trust You"

Ministered By James Fortune & FIYA

What Have You Allowed To Become Embedded In Your River? What Are The Essentials In Your Life?

An interruption.....
Something that breaks the continuity or flow of something else.   Something that disrupts.   An interval or intermission.

What is the cause of the interruptions in your life?    What is it that is causing you to continuously take intermissions concerning the things that God has told you to do?    Why is it that you allow things to consume and distract you and cause the plan of God to be hindered in your life?

God's love for us is continuous.   It can't be shaken.    It can't be interrupted.   It is there no matter what.   No matter what we say.   No matter what we do.   There is no interruption in God's love for us.   He doesn't love us one day and because we make a mistake stop loving us.    He loves us through our mistakes.   He loves us through our sins.    He doesn't abandon us when we don't measure up.    He said in His word that He would never leave us nor forsake us.  

What more could we ask for than a father who will love us no matter what? 

Yet we on the other hand are constantly being distracted and being interrupted with the process of life.    The process is the steps we have to take to get to the end result of eternal life.    We tend to slip when we take steps.    When we slip we tend to let go of God.   God is there with an outstretched hand.....yet we let go and begin to falter.    When you falter, you start to lose strength and momentum.   Your pursuit, your passion, and your progress are put on hold because you have become distracted with life.   

It's time to become steadfast.   Steadfast means fixed, unchanging, and steady.    It's time to remain focused.    It's time to be consistent and coherent.  Where everything that we are saying is lining up with everything that we are doing.   

It's time to flow with God and to nullify any and all distractions in your life.    If there is anything that you have intentionally overlooked.....hat you have intentionally allowed to stay in your life....... that is causing a blockage in the anointing flowing in and through your life.......get rid of it.   Let it go.    Understand what an interruption is.   Understand what a distraction is.   

You have the ability to flow with God continuously.   You have the ability to walk and flow in His power without ceasing.    It's all a matter of choice.   It's all a matter of what you allow to become embedded in your river.    When something is embedded it is implanted or attached to you.    

Understand that an attachment is not part of the core.   It is something that is supplemental or should I say extra.    You have to decide if the "extras" in your life are essential to your walk with God.  

Worship For Today...

"Flow To You"

Ministered By Pastor William Murphy III

Someone Is At A Crossroad In Life....How Will They Feel After Encountering You Today?

I can remember going to church one day years ago and after the praise and worship....after the message....after the prayer.....after everything was said and done......the people that were sitting next to me said.....

".....all I want to know is ..... where is the Love?"

Isn't it sad that we can do all the right "stuff".   Yet still not reflect "who" and "what" God really is.    What does that tell you?   God is love and love cannot not be imitated or acted out.    Love is real.    It is a true reflection of who God is and it has to come through you from within.  

How many people do you encounter in a day and after they have been in your presence they still walk away feeling empty and void.   When something is void....it is ineffective and useless.  It is empty and uninhabited.    How is it that you can be full of God.....His love and His word.   Yet you walk away from people every day leaving them empty, lost, and lonely.    Leaving them without hope when hope dwells on the inside of you?

Do you really believe that the love that God gave you is just for you?  

We have to move from being selfish to becoming selfless.   Less of self and more of who God is.   We have to understand the importance of "Jabez Encounters".   The people that you meet along the way of life.   Why God chose you to come across their path.   We tend to always say that God brought someone across our paths.....but you have to understand that He is also taking you across someone else's path.   

Understand that there is something in you that someone else needs.    There is a place in people all around you that is considered a crossroad.   A place of determining factors.   Factors that will determine where they will go from this point on.   What you contribute at these points in their life will be what helps them to get to their final destination.    What you say and how you love will be what shows them who God is and the love He has for them. 

How many times do we get monetary or material things and we say and thank God for His love towards us.   How much more .... when God sends His servant to speak directly to us?   Understand that you are His servant today.   You are sent to pour out His love to someone who is at a crossroad in life.   Understand that your words can heal a nation if they reflect who God is.   Understand that your prayers can wipe away tears .... if they flow from the Heart of God.   Understand that your praise can bring joy and laughter .... if its rooted and grounded in God.   

You are a tool.   Created and hand made by God.   Don't render yourself useless.   Let people you encounter today walk away feeling and knowing the love of God that is reflected through you.     Don't be one who looks, who sees, and then walks away.   Be a hand of help.    Help someone get up today.....to walk today....to see today.....to feel the love of God today.   

Remember it has never been about you.   It ALWAYS points back to God.   

Worship For Today....

"All I Need Is You"

Ministered By Hillsong

"It's Not About Status....Stop Living In The Performance And Get Notarized By God" ....

Are you looking for status?    Do you want to be part of the "in" crowd?   The ones that everyone look at and everyone run to.    Part of the "elite".    Those that are considered by the world to be of the best status. Or do you want to be significant in God?   Significant to God?  Significant means..... important and noteworthy.   Who do you really want to validate you?    To seal you?   A seal is a stamp of authenticity.     Only God knows you from the inside out.   Only God can testify as to whether or not your walk and your talk are authentic.   

We have lived so long in the "act" of life.   Acting like we like things that we don't.   Acting like we need things that we don't.   Acting.    An act is a "performance" and we have learned how to perform in life.    To do what meets the standard.   The question is what is the standard and who is setting the standard that you are trying to meet?    Is the standard that you are trying to meet based on the word of God?   Or is it based on what others have done and what they say is right?

You have to begin to be led of the "Word" and not the world.    You have to let the knowledge of who God is....be your guide.   You have to "let down" people in order to "please" God.    We tend to want to please people and in turn let down God.    You have to know what pleases "your Father .... God" and do it.   You can't know the heart of "your Father" if you never spend time with Him.     

You have to understand that "faith is"....just as "God is". 
It is the trust....the belief....the life .....
It is the walk.....the talk.....the love.....
Faith is required.....just as God is required.  

Peoples opinions of who you are.    That's what they are.   They are opinions.   They are not established facts and you cannot allow them to validate who you are....how you think.....and what you do.     Only God knows you......So let you validation and seal of authenticity come from Him.   Understand people look at "seals".   They purchased brands and food based on "seals" and "ratings".    They want proof that things have been checked out and that what they are buying has been inspected and approved.  

Understand that people are looking and listening for a "seal of authenticity" that is supposed to be upon your life.   They are looking for something to validate what you are saying and what they see you doing.  They are looking for a people that are "living what they say" and not "performing".    

Get "notarized" today.   Allow the "Word of God" to attest and certify what you say, what you do, and how you feel today.    When people look and listen to you today.....let them see and hear God's seal of approval through your words and actions.   

God's Word is an everpresent mirror that "always" reflects and reveals who and whose you are.    

Worship For Today....

"You Are"

Ministered By Clint Brown

Where Is God Today? Are You Seeking Recognition or Do You Want The Affirmation of God?

So where is God today?  Is He in your walk?   In your talk?   In your words?   In your appearance?   In the way your project yourself?   Your attitude?   Your love?    Where is He?  

If God is in you.....are people seeing Him?   Or do you have on a mask trying to portray who He is?   Is it a masquerade?   A masquerade is a disguise or false outward show.    Is what you doing real?   Or are you putting on a show?   A performance.  

God is not looking for performances.   He is not looking for pretense or pretending.    Pretense is a false display of feelings, attitudes, and intentions.   What is your intent for God?   Your purpose....the thing that you are determined to do.   What is it?    

We have gotten so caught up in the creation and everything that has been created for us....that we forget the Creator.   We give recognition to men when they create or come up with a new idea.   But we fail to recognize God.    We fail to admire and admonish Him for what He has done and is doing in our lives.   We fail to give Him the glory that is due.   Yet we glorify man.     We recognize man.   We exalt man.   

Aren't you glad that God is not into recognition?   Recognition is based on opinion.   What someone believes to be true.   God is looking for affirmation.   A people that know Him and that are willing to testify of His goodness and His grace.   God affirms us and we should affirm Him.   Affirmation means to support based on knowledge and not opinion.   It means to uphold.    

God knows you.   He knows everything about you.....and He is upholding you.    He has created you and He dwells inside of you.   There can be no masquerade on the inside of you.   What God sees is who you really are.    There are no masks that can be worn internally.   So what is the use of trying to play charades?   The one who matters....the one who knows....sees from the inside out.    Charades is an outward display for those who can only give you recognition.   God is an inward reality of the one who affirms you.

Are you seeking recognition or do you want the affirmation of God?

Worship For Today....

"From The Inside Out"

Ministered By Hillsong

When People Are Going Through Their "Just When Moments".....Are You A Partition or A Blockade?

Just when.....
Just when you thought it was over.....
Just when you didn't know what to do.....
Just when you made a decision.....
Just when.....

Something changes.....just when.....

That's when God steps in.    He steps into your just when moments.    When you don't know what to do.   When you need direction.   When you are hurt.   When you feel lost.   That's when God "is" the "I Am That" in your life.

We have to understand that God is omnipotent yet He is "personal".   Although He is everywhere at the same time....Although He is the God of all creation.   Yet....He comes to each of us on a personal level.    My needs, my desires, my wants.....are different from what you need....what you desire.....and what you want.   He ministers to each of us individually.   He knows each of us intricately  Every complex area of our life....God already knows.   He knows how to solve every issue we could ever encounter.  

So when you get to the "just when" moments in your life, know that God is already there.   His plan has already been written and established in His word.   God does not deviate from His word.   To deviate means you depart from what is already established.   God's word is established and He and His word are one.    He and His word cannot be severed or should I say separated.  

The question is are you severing yourself from Him and His word?   To sever means to cut or slice (especially forcibly).   It means to break off or dissolve.   Are you forcing yourself to be separate from who God is?    From who God created  you to be?

You have to understand the "context" in which you were created.   When you look at something in context....you look at what occurs before and what follows in order to understand the true meaning of it.    You have to begin looking at what Jesus did and what God has said in order to understand the true meaning of your purpose in the earth.

Jesus is our "before"....He came and lived His life as an example for all men and He died on the cross so that all men could be saved.      We are the partition .... the thing that separates the past and the future.    We are the ones that God wants to use in this "present" state.    When you understand what God has done and what God has already established in His word that is to come....then you can understand the "context" in which you were created.    You can understand your purpose.   We were all created for a purpose and that purpose is to magnify who God is in the earth....to pour out His love.......so that people who are in their "just when" moments in life can see, feel, and touch the love of God through us.     Your purpose is always related to who God is.

If you are the partition that God is using to separate the past and the future.....can people see God through you?   Can they look beyond who you are are and see who God is?   Or are you just being a blockade?   Something that is keeping them from getting to where they need to be.

Worship For Today.....

"You That I Trust"

Ministered By Rance Allen Group & Paul Porter

When Will We Come To The "Secret Place Of God" and Dwell There....

The Secret Place....
The Place Where God Is....
The Place Where He Has Called Us To Dwell....

Psalm 91 is such an awesome scripture.   It starts out telling us of the safety that is available to us in the secret place of God.   It tells us that if we dwell in the secret place....if we stay fixed in who He is.....we will have safety.   

What you have to understand is the secret place is not available to everyone.   The word secret means that it is not known or seen.   Nor is it meant to be known or seen by others.    It is a place of protection.   It is a place of power.   

The problem is.....we move in and out.   We treat God's secret place like a "temporary shelter".   We don't look at it as a long term residence.   We use it as a means of temporary shelter from the elements of life.   When we are in an uncomfortable position....we run in.   When things calm down....we come back out to the worlds way of doing things.    

We have to understand what it means to dwell.   To take up permanent residence.   To move in without the option of moving out.   Understanding that there is no other place to go.   There are no other places in life that will offer  you the protection and power that God offers.    "Abiding" ....  withstanding, enduring, conforming and staying..... in the will, purpose, and plan of God.   

God has invited YOU and revealed to YOU His "Secret Place".   He has given you His word and exposed Himself through His word to you.   He has shown you who He is.   Not everyone can hear what God is saying.   Not everyone can understand what God is saying.   But He has chosen  you to hear and to understand.   But what we do with what we know....is a choice He has left  up to us.     He said...."choose this day....".  

Why do you think He chose you?   Why do you think out of all the people in the world....He is revealing Himself to you?    An even better question is.....what will you do with what He is revealing to you?  

Today you are the cup that God is pouring in to and passing around for others to drink from.    Will what they drink be bitter or sweet.    Jesus gave the people wine.....yet He was given vinegar on the cross. 

 Jesus is the new wine that has been poured out for you and me.....what will you pour out in return?

Worship For Today....

"I Want The Best Wine"

Ministered By William Murphy

God Is Asking You To Surrender....Are You Opposing God?

To surrender.....
Surrender means to cease resistance to an enemy or an opponent and to submit to their authority.

Why have we made God our opponent?   Why are we going against Him instead of taking our place on the winning side?   

Surrender means to submit.   We have to get to the place of submission.   Every time we go against God's plan and God's purpose....we oppose Him.   We cease to yield.   We rebel.   We choose not to relinquish our lives and lifestyle for the life of Jesus that has already been sacrificed on our behalf.   

All God is asking today is that we surrender.   That we stop resisting and opposing Him.    That we submit to His will....His purpose....His plan.    That we let go of what we thought and pick up what He has said. That we move out of the place of resistance.....into the place of submission.   

The true fact of the matter is ......

There are only two sides.   Whoever you oppose is your opponent.    The side that you are on is the side you yield to.       So I ask the question again.....are you opposing God?  Have you made God your opponent or your guide?

Worship For Today....

"I Give You My Heart"

Ministered By Hillsong

Your Decision Determines Your Placement.....Will You Repent? True Repentance Affects Your Reality ... It Is Not Just Based On Appearance.....

2nd Post Today....

When will you get to the place of understanding?   The place of repentance?   The place where you understand that there is a point beyond salvation.   There is a point where you have to decide and be determined to live holy.

So many people stop at the point of salvation.   They stop at the point of saying they believe in God.   They believe in Jesus.   Yes at that point you are saved.   But there is a point where you have to choose to live holy.  

Adam knew God.   He dwelt with God.   He communed with God.    But He chose to disobey God.   He chose to go against what God had said.    At that point he no longer could dwell in the presence of God.  

That's how so many people are.....we know God.   We pray and believe that God is.   But we disobey Him.   We choose to make decisions that go against who He is.    Then we base our lives on living in His grace and His mercy.   When will people understand that there is also a WRATH of God?

Yes ... we are living in the dispensation of His grace and He has afforded all of us the opportunity to be saved.   Our salvation is our confession that we believe.   However, the Bible also talks about many being chosen and few entering in.   Will you just be one who is chosen?   Or will you do what it takes to enter in?  

Adam was chosen.   He was chosen to be the first man.    However, he could not stay in the place that God created for him to be.   Will you be able to stay at the final call?   The book of Revelation talks about the final days and the final call.   It talks about the opportunities that God is giving for repentance.    It tells of the destination for those who fail to repent.     Repentance is the determining factor to where you will spend eternal life.  

You must understand that repentance goes beyond what you say with your mouth.   It goes beyond saying Lord forgive me.   The question is .... is your repentance outward or inward based.    Is it just words spoken to reflect an outward appearance?    Or has your repentance taken place in your heart and mind first and is now being reflective in your outward reality?   There is a difference in what appears to be and what is actually reality.   The question is .... is your repentance also your reality?   Is it real or just something you are conditioned to say?    

Understand today.....that we are in the season of opportunity.    We are in the season of God's grace.    There are choices that you must make....beyond being saved.    Salvation is your confession that you believe that Jesus is the Son of God and that He died for your sins.    Now your choices determine your placement after all is said (after your confession)  and done.

Will you be part of the "many" that are chosen or the "few" that will enter in?

Are You Empty & Void? If So, How Did You Get That Way?

Favored of God.   Full of God.    Yet empty.
How?   How can that be?

How can you be full of who God is and yet still be spiritually empty?  

God is enough.   Actually, God is more than enough....yet you act as though you don't have enough.   What is that?   What is causing that reaction to who God is?   To what God is?   To what God has done in your life?  

Jesus died for you....so that you could be filled with Him.    The Holy Spirit.   Yet you are empty.    Why?

What is draining your life?   What is draining who you are in God?   What is keeping you from being full to the overflow with who God is and what He has done?    What is redirecting you and causing you to malfunction?    When something malfunctions......it fails to meet the standard.  

There is a standard in God.   Are you living your life based on that standard?   Or are you walking in spiritual impotence?    Helpless, powerless, and unable to function properly in the  things of God.

It's time to rise up.   It's time to run again.   It's time to move from the place of emptiness to the place of pouring out.     It's time you recognize who you are and who you belong to.    God fills.   He doesn't drain.    So if there is anything or anyone that is draining your life.....you may need to perform spiritual surgery.   You may need to remove whatever is causing you to be spiritually dysfunctional.  

God is real.   You just have to realize the "reality of God".    Move from where you are to where He wants you to be.    Fix the areas in your life that leak.   When something leaks....it means it has a breach or a flaw.   Take hold of Isaiah 58 today.....for God "is" .... the "Repairer of the Breach".    

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Worship For Today....

"Renew Me"

Ministered By Martha Munizzi

Are You Allowing God's Words To "Permeate" While You "Meditate"? Are You Allowing God To "Be".......

Permeate Means ... To Pass Through....To Pervade....To Spread or Flow....To Touch Every Part....

That's what God wants to do with His word.   He wants it to pass through you.   In the passing, He wants it to touch every part of your life.   To spread and flow from the inside out.   To pervade....   When something is pervasive....it may be unwanted....but it overtakes.    It is overbearing.    

That's what God wants.   He wants to come into every area of your life and overtake everything that tries to resist His will, His purpose, and His plan.   

Are you letting God "be"?
Are you letting Him "be" God?

When you allow God to "be" God.....He meets every need.   
When you allow God to "be" God.....He heals every hurt.
When you allow God to "be" God.....He gives you peace in the midst of the storm.

What we tend to try to do is take God's place.    We try to meet our own needs.   We try to console our own hurts.   We walk in fear instead of faith.   

God is trying to come in and permeate who you are.   He wants you to keep your mind "stayed" on Him.   On who He is.   On what He has done.   On what He desires to do in your life.  

Why?  So that He can consume you with His goodness and His grace.   So that you will know without doubt who He is.   So that your responses in life will be immediate because they reflect what you know.   When our response is delayed....it is because it is "mingled" with doubt.    God wants your response to be pure....and clear.....and IMMEDIATE. 

Will you let God "be" today?    Will you "Meditate" and allow God to "Permeate" who you are?  If you will do that....the end result will always be a reflection of who "He" is.   

Worship For Today.....

"It's My Pleasure"

Ministered By Wess Morgan

 

So What Is Your Witness? What Is Your "Life" and "Lifestyle" Speaking?

So what is your witness?   Is your witness your walk?   Your talk?   The way you help others?   The way you love others?    Is your witness your giving or your taking away?    What is it that is testifying of who you are?   Not just who you are in Christ .... but who you are in the earth.     What is testifying.....giving a first hand account.....of who YOU are?   Not your neighbor, not your friend, not your family members .... but you.    What we tend to do is try to give account or witness against those around us....what they do and don't do.....when it is our life that is witnessing on our behalf.  

Your "words" are presenting evidence of who you are.    Of "whose" you are.  Where you are going .... is that presenting evidence?    What you are doing?   How about what you are watching.....or what you are listening to?   Your "life" or should I say your "lifestyle" is the evidence that shows who you are......what you believe......and whether or not you really trust God.  

So when it comes to the things of God.....is your life testifying for you or against you?    Are you a part of the plan or are you representing the problem?   God wants you to be a part of the solution.   However, you must understand that everything has opposites.    The opposite of solution is problem.    So analyze your life and determine whether you.....your life.....is part of the problem or the solution that God has put in place for the earth.  There is no middle ground.   Silence does not afford you the opportunity to be neutral.    There is no "neutral" in God.    When you say that you are neutral....you say that you are not aligned or supporting any side.   Jesus said in Matthew 10 that if we confess Him before man.....He would confess us before the Father.    It is at the point of your confession that you are presented by Christ to the Father.    You confession is your acknowledgment of who Jesus is and who God is in the earth.    It is you moving from a backwards or neutral position and aligning yourself with God and His plan and His purpose in the earth.   But you have to understand that beyond your confession ....there is a thing called life and lifestyle.  

Remember....the whole world testifies of who God is in the earth.   Your life.....or should I say your lifestyle.....testifies of who you are, what you believe, and who God is "through" you.    You have no need for any man to testify of who you are when your "life" is the witness that is always before God speaking loudly and clearly of who you are and what you represent.

Look within today .... so that the fruit that's on the inside can manifest on the out.    The love, the joy, the peace, the understanding.    Be your own judge and let your recourse be God.   Recourse is when you turn to someone or something for help.  

It's your life and how you live it ..... God has left the choices up to you.

(Take time to listen to the worship for today......if you don't have time now....come back and listen to this song.    We have to know that .... God is there!    Wherever you are ..... He is there)  

Worship For Today....

"You Were There"

Ministered By Avalon

Justified.

It May Not Be What It Appears To Be.....Stop Looking At The Circumstance & Keep Your Gaze On God ....

Appear.....when something becomes visible or noticeable.    When it can be seen.    The question is .... what are you seeing?    Is it a smoke screen?   A smoke screen is something that is used to disguise or conceal something else.    Or is it the "truth"?    The truth is something that doesn't change .... no matter what the circumstances are.

Did you know that God does not change ..... "no matter what"?    No matter what the circumstance is....God does not change.   No matter what it looks like.....God does not change.   No matter what you think about it....God does not change.    He has already said it and confirmed it in His word.....He said "I change NOT".   So if there is a change taking place in your life....it's not God that's changing.  

What we tend to do is look at our "circumstance" and predetermine our outcome.   When God is trying to get us to keep our "gaze" upon Him.   When you gaze, you look steadily and intently with fixed attention.    Are you gazing at God or what is going on around you.  

The thing is .... everything around you is constantly changing.   But God.....He never changes.  

Get focused today.   Stop looking at the appearance and focus on the outcome.   The outcome is who God is.    He said that He is the beginning and the end.....and the end result is where God is taking you.   He wants us to always keep our mind and our gaze "stayed" on Him.

Worship For Today....

"Our First Love"

Ministered By Alvin Slaughter

  

Looking Through The Eyes Of God....What Do You See?

God's view is different from ours.   His perspective is different.   His heart is consumed with love.    What about you?   When you look.....what do you see?   When you talk.....what do you say?    Are you judgemental?   Or do you love no matter what?    

We have to begin to see the world as God sees it.   To love like God loves.   To hope like God hopes.    God's hope and His desire is that you love Him.   That you serve Him.   That you tell the world about how good He is to "you".   That you let them know that He is not a respecter of persons.   That His heart cries out for His children.    That His desire is to do them good and not evil.    God wants you to see the hope in the people around you.  

In life, we tend to write people off.    We tend to "wash our hands" of people.   Like they are dirt that can be just washed away.    That's not God's way and it certainly does not represent who He is.    Love cries and longs for people to understand.   It calls out to those who are lost and comforts those who are hurting.   

Love is an "enabler".   It enables people to overcome.    It enables people to see clearly.   It enables people to see God inside of their situation.     Your reflection of love is what enables the people in your circle of influence to see God for who He really is.   

When you look through the eyes of God....you see a hurting and dying world.   When they look through their eyes at you.....do they see a reflection of who God is in the earth?

Worship For Today....

"I Am What You See"

Lead Vocals Ministered By Pastor William Murphy III

(from Bishop Paul Morton Cry Your Last Tear CD)

Is Your "Passion Passive" or Are You On An Aggressive Pursuit For The Things Of God?

What is it that you will be doing when God appears?   Will you be watching?   Will you be waiting?   Or will you be distracted?   Will your vision be blurred?   Will you passion be passive?  

A "Passive Passion".   How is that?   To be passionate about God....yet be passive when it comes to the things of God.   Passive means that you watch and accept what happens and what others do without an active response or resistance.    In essence you say its "okay".    In your heart you know it's not right....yet in your actions and your reactions you agree with the world and what is going on it.   

A "Passive Passion" should not be.    When you say that you are passionate about something.....you are saying that you believe strongly in it.   When will we get "aggressive" about what we say we believe?    When will we move forward with God and pursue Him with all that we have and all that we are?

Take today to move.   Move from the place of "passivity" to the place of "aggression".    Pursue your passion aggressively.   Don't allow the world and its ways to desensitize you.   When you become desensitized....you become less sensitive and immune to the things that are going on around you.    Sensitivity is required to walk in the love of God.

So I ask again....what will you be doing when God appears?    Will you be one who has a "Passive Passion" or will you be "Pursuing Your Passion Aggressively"?   God already sees where you are......His desire is that you move to a place in Him where He can use you fully.   In order for Him to do so.....you must be sensitive in order to operate and pour out His love to a hurting and dying world.   

Worship For Today.....

"Give Me Your Eyes"

Ministered By Brandon Heath



What Is It That God Is Trying To Do? God Wants To Use You As His "Funnel"......

Have you ever stopped and wondered....what is it that God is trying to do?   What lesson does He want me to learn?   Why am I in this place at this time?    When will this season pass?  

God wants you to understand and know that not only is He trying to get something to you....He is trying to get something through you.   You are a "funnel".    A funnel is a utensil that has a wide top and a narrow bottom.   It is used to guide liquid or powder into something that has a narrow opening.   Please understand that not every funnel can be used on every object.   God wants to use you as His funnel.  There are specific people that He has placed in your life that you are designed to pour into.   Because your heart is open to Him (the wide opening)......He wants to pour into you so that you can pour into someone else.   He wants you to be a funnel of His grace, His power, and His anointing.     

We need to begin to see our trials and our struggles differently.....the way God sees them.    They are only meant to stretch you.   To stretch your capacity to receive God's goodness and His grace.  To enhance your faith.   Understand that after stretching comes comfort.   Comfort in knowing that God has it all under control.   

Think about it.....when you buy a new pair of shoes.   They have to be worn.   They have to be stretched.   After they are stretched....they are comfortable to wear.    You have to understand the stretching process that comes through trials and test.    After you have been through it....after your faith has been stretched....those areas no longer cause you to react or to be afraid.   Those are areas that you have walked through.   Where you already been stretched.   Where you now walk through with grace and confidence.   It's in those areas you can now be a funnel.   You can now pour out with confidence the Word of God to people around you that are going through the same thing.    It's at that time you become a funnel of what God has done for you....pouring faith, trust, and confidence into someone else.

Understand that your momentary pain can make a world of difference.   God wants you to take all that you have been through and help someone else "get through".   Your approach is based on your reaction to who God is.    Is He your father, your daddy, your friend?   If He is all that....then you know that He will never leave you nor forsake you and He will not allow you to be broken.    Stretching only enlarges your capacity to contain so that He can funnel through you .... His love, His grace, and His mercy.

Worship For Today....

"I Will Run"

Ministered By Freddy Rodriguez

Stop Trying To Re-Create What God Has Already Created....The "Seed"....The "Word".....The "Son" ...... Your "Now"

There are things that you will do.   There are things that you will say.   There are things in your life that go far beyond what others ever expected in your life.   Far beyond your own expectancy.   Watch what God is doing in and through you.   Be available.   Availability is a must.   Experience.   What is experience?  It is not necessary.   Experience is what you go through.   Jesus went through it all for you.   Availability is what you need.   Availability is what God is expecting from you.   For you to surrender all that you are and all that you want to be …. To Him.   He will get you there.   The place where you are supposed to be.   He will exalt you in due season.   A season of ”now”……

You ask what is a season of now.   It is a season where God is moving and manifesting in your “now”.   Not your future.   Not your past.   The “now”.    The time that He composed and created for now.   

Composed……when something is composed, it is written and created.   God is ready to manifest what He has already written for your “now”.   He wrote it before the world began.   He wrote it before He created you.   Understand today that your future has already been written.   You are working hard to cause things to manifest in your tomorrow when your tomorrow is already in place today.    You are trying to re-create what God has already created.    Walk in what God has done.   Walk in the power of the “Son”.    The death, the burial, the resurrection was for your redemption…..so that you could walk freely in the “light” of God’s word.   When God spoke (His word)…..He created.   What God creates…..He manifests in due season.   

God created a seed….but the full manifestation of that seed is the fruit that comes from the seed.    You are God’s seed in the earth.  You have to understand and realize that “now” in this season …..

God is ready to bring into manifestation….exactly who His seeds are in the earth.     DON’T ALLOW YOUR GROUND TO BE FILLED WITH DEBRIS.   When rocks and debris surround the seed (stony ground)…..the seed can not take root.   It cannot grow.   Keep the ground of your heart clean and clear.   Eliminate the stones….the rocks….that come in through your eye and ear gates.   Make ready your ground by saturating it with the Word of God.    God’s plan is that you be fruitful and that you multiply NOW.   But the manifestation can only come forth if you allow the “Son” to  shine on the ground of your heart and penetrate the “Seed” of God’s word within you.   For you are the “seed” …. you are “watered” by God’s word ….and the “Son” will shine upon you and bring the manifestation of God’s plan into your “now”.  

Worship For Today......

"Praise Is What I Do"

Ministered By William Murphy

Classic Faith........Leads To Supernatural Belief? There Are No "Substitutes" for God.....

When something is classic.......it is judged over a period of time to be outstanding and of superior quality.    God is classic.    He has been proven over and over again to be outstanding and of the highest rank, status, and  quality.    You serve a "classic" God!   Confidence is built through your belief.    When you know something has been proven to withstand the tests of time....you are confident in its ability.    Knowing that God has never failed His people.   Knowing that God delivers.   Knowing that God heals.   Knowing that God provides.   Knowing that He never leaves nor forsakes.   Knowing that He loves uncompromisingly.   These things deepen your faith.   These things deepen your confidence in who He is.   These things lead you to believe that regardless of anything else that is going on around you....."God Is".   

The question is ..... "who" is and "what" is God to you?   Is He the one that you look to when things are going wrong?  Your "Father" and "Friend".    Is He the one you come to when you are sick?   Your "Healer".   Is He the one you come to when you need direction?   Your "Waymaker".    What about when you need food or need to pay a bill?   Your "Provider".   Is God "everything" to you or are you looking for substitutes?   Someone or something to take the place of God?   Are you trying to replace the "classic" with something or someone that hasn't withstood the tests of time?   How can you make a substitute for God?   When something is substituted....it is supposed to have the same qualities or qualifications to produce the same end result.   Who or what can take the place of God to bring you to the end result of "eternal life"?   Nothing ..... No One.  There are no substitutes for God.    Anything that you try to substitute God with immediately becomes an "idol"....."a little god" in your life.    God has already said that He would have no other gods before Him and that we are not to worship idols.   

You have to get to a place where your "classic faith" leads you to "supernatural belief".   When something is supernatural....it means it relates to existence outside of the normal realm.  Outside of what you normally see and what you normally believe.    Beyond what can be seen with the physical eye.   It means that even though you cannot see it.....you know it's still happening.    It means that although you can't see Him.....you still know and you still believe that God is still moving on your behalf. 

Worship For Today.....

"I Will Follow"

Ministered By Chris Tomlin

   

What Is Your Heart Saying? Does It Reflect The Attributes & Characteristics of Your Father?

Yes....a word of confirmation.    A word that says you agree.    What are you saying yes to?   Are you saying yes to God?   To His will.....His way?   Are you confirming your devotion to Him?  Your dedication & commitment?   What are you saying?   

Although your mouth may be silent......you are still speaking.   Your actions are speaking.   Your attitude is speaking.    Your heart is speaking.     The question is......is it speaking the Word?

A lot of times we think that if we say nothing at all with our mouths......we are okay.   So we don't take a stand.   We don't stand for what we believe and we don't disannul what we don't believe.    We "think" that we are neutral or that "God knows".   What we have to understand is that God is not telling us not to speak.   He is saying "speak the Word only" because there is power in the spoken Word.   

In Matthew 8....the word "only" was used.    That's because there are a lot of things we could speak.   What we tend to do is allow everything and everyone else to speak on our behalf.   How can you let something or someone else speak for you ..... when you are supposed to be speaking for God?

Let your heart, your actions, and your voice be one of surrender today.   Surrendering all that you are for all that He is.    Let your mind...."stay" on Him.   Stay means to continue to be in a place or condition.    Let it rest on who He is.     Let your words reflect the attributes and characteristics of your Father.    Let everything you do....speak for who God is.

Worship For Today.....

"My Heart Says Yes"

Ministered By Troy Sneed

The Pivotal Point.....

We all come to a place where our lives pivot.   When something pivots, it rotates....it turns.    Are you at that place?   Is your life changing.   At what "point" are you in your life?   Or are you called to be the "point" in someone else's life.    Are you willing to be the person who will be used by God to help bring about change in someone else.  

We have pivots in our life.   Places where we change.   Where we stop what we have been doing and decide to do it God's way.   Where we open up and let God do what He wants to do and we adhere or should I say stick to it.    Have you got there yet?   To the pivotal point where the only thing that matters is God.  Doing it His way.   Living for Him......Working for Him......Speaking for Him.    Being extreme for Him.  

Once you reach the pivotal points in your life....you can then be the "point" for someone else.   When we say you can be the "point"....we mean you can be the example.    You can be the one who sows seeds into someone else.   You can be the one that brings forth God's word in due season.    It is at these "points" that people change.   When they experience the love of God through God's people.   It is as that place that people realize that God is real.   When they run into "radical".    People that are willing to be "extreme" for God.    

In Geometry.....you start at one point and draw a line that reaches to another point.   Be the point that will help others around you connect to God.    Be the arrow that leads....that "points" to who He is and what He has done.    Be stationary.....Be still.   Let God use you as a "pivot".    Where people come in contact with you and they decide to change based on the reality that they receive by coming in contact and seeing the "life" that you lead.  

"Pivotal Points".....we have them and people around us need them.

Worship For Today....

"Moving Forward"

Ministered By Ricardo Sanchez

  

Where Do I Go From Here? Trusting and Waiting......

Those are the words I here.....where do I go from here?   How often do those words ring in our soul.   In our mind, in our will, in our emotions.    Our hearts cry .... asking God .... what now Lord?   What do I do now?   Where do I go now?    And the response of God is always ..... wait.    Wait on Me and I will show you......I will direct you.    The response of God is always ...... trust.    Trust me ..... for I care for you.  

The responses of God.......wait and trust.    But it's not easy when all you can see is the situation.   We have to begin to expand our vision.   To look beyond what we can see in the natural.    To learn how to focus on what is beyond the situation.   What is beyond the circumstance.    To see God for who He is and not just what He does.  

We have limited our vision of God.   We have constrained Him.  Constrain means to restrict the scope, extent, and activity of something.   We have restricted God by limiting our view of who He is and what He wants to do in our lives.    We have to start seeing God in our "peripheral" vision.   The vision that occurs outside of our central gaze.    What happens in our lives is not just based on what we can see right before us.    There are things happening all around us and we have to see God at work in all things in our lives.  

So the next time you are wondering what to do .... where to go .... how to handle it.    Trust God.   Trust that He is and has been working in those areas that you have not been focused on or have not been able to see.  

Wait on God to show you and direct you in the way you should go.    When you wait on God.....you avoid the potholes of life.    A pothole is nothing more than a pit.    Pitfalls are unsuspected dangers or difficulties.   Waiting on and trusting God keeps you out of the pitfalls in life.  

God has a plan for you.   He knows exactly where He is taking you and the route has already been predestined.    Let your words be ..... "I will trust you God".   Let your life be one "in the waiting".    Waiting to see the awesomeness of who God is and what He wants to do just for you.  

Worship For Today....

"Where Do I Go From Here"

Ministered By Bishop Marvin Winans

Challenged....The Pressure Cooker Of Life.....The End Result Is "Transformation"

To be challenged....
Or should I say to be changed?

A challenge is an act of defiance....it is a confrontation.    It is a demand for explanation or justification.  

What do you do when you are challenged with life?   When you are confronted with the issues of life.   Those things that flow or pass through  your life that bring you discomfort.    That are unsettling and unwanted.  

How do you confront those things in your life?    Do you just accept them or do you handle them through the Word of God.    To handle means to deal with.  There are two ways of dealing with things.....either you cope with them or you dispose of them.    

What are you doing with the issues that are confronting your life?   Are you allowing them to stay....coping with them?   Or are you applying the blood and Word of God to them and disposing of them?  

Life is challenging.    But in life's confrontations.....you should be changed.     When food is cooked in a pressure cooker....it undergoes complete transformation in a short amount of time.    It uses steam to promote internal pressure.   Steam is the vapor phase of water.    It contains power and energy.  

You have to remember that water is symbolic of the anointing.    So it is the steam of the anointing that contains the power and energy to transform your life when you are in high pressure situations.    When you feel as though your life has been placed in a pressure cooker.   Air tight on every side.....with no release from the pressure.   It's at that time you have to know that the end result if transformation.   Readiness, completeness, preparedness.    The end result is something that is ready to be used.    It is you in a place where people can eat from testimonies of your life.    

Pressure is not easy to go through.   It is a burning within in order to be prepared throughout.    Trust God today.    He has sealed you on every side.   He is preparing you for His use.    The confrontations.....the pressures.....are only temporary.     But the result....when all is said and done.....is eternal life.  

It is a complete transformation and manifestation "of" His goodness and His grace.   It is a body and a life that is ready to be used "for" His goodness, His grace, and His glory.    

If you have a prayer request or testimony....

please click the link in the upper right hand corner of blog page or submit to info@dailymomentswithgod.com.   

 Let us come together and pray with you or rejoice with you in what God has already done.     

The worship song today says that God is unchangeable, unshakable, and unstoppable...... He is God alone before time began...... Right now in the good times and bad...... He is God alone......From before time began....He was seated on the throne......

Worship For Today....

"You Are God Alone.....In The Good Times & Bad"

Ministered By Marcus Cole

Life Is All About Choice.....YOU choose.....

2nd Post Today....

Life is all about choice.   It's all about making the right choices to do the right thing.   But we all know that is easier said than done.    How many times have you said to God ..... if I get another chance.......I will not do this again.....I will do exactly what you say......I will let the people know.     And how many times have you handled the situation exactly the same.

God is looking for us to choose Him.   To choose His way over every alternative.   An alternative is an available possibility.    The thing about possibilities is.....it says that something may or may not happen.   It says that there is a likelihood....but there is no assurance in it.    When there is assurance, there is certainty......there is confidence.    We have to learn how to make choices with assurance and confidence.   When we make God choices we can be confident that everything will work out for our good.  

We can be confident that the One who sees all and knows all is working on our behalf.    Even if we can't see the full manifestation of our choice....we know that God is in control if we "choose" the God route.

It's time to stop and take a look around at all the possibilities.   All the alternatives.   There is only one choice that leads to "life".....that's the God choice.   Your choice for Him requires ultimate surrender.   It requires that you let go of the reigns.   Let go of trying to lead yourself and learn to be led.  

Let God lead you to a place in Him where every choice you make will be a choice of surrender.   Surrendering all that that you are to become all that He is.  

Allow prayer to be a part of your day today....be sure to click on the upper right hand corner of the blog and e-mail your prayer request and testimonies to www.dailymomentswithgodprayer.blogspot.com.

Worship For Today....

"That's Why We Praise Him" 

Voices of Unity Youth Choir

The Heart of God

The heart of God, is love. The heart of God seeks after you, it longs to be with you. So many times, we think that we have sinned so bad that we have caused God not to love us. This is not true. God loves us no matter what.  He doesn't condone our sin but He is faithful and just to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Today remember that God is longing for time wIth you.......are you longing for time with Him?
Written by: Lexi Moore

Are You Asking People To Do What You Are Not Willing To Do? Make Your Life A Passionate Pursuit After The Plans, Purposes, and Will of God....

Are you asking people to do what you are not willing to do? To go where you are not willing to go? To walk where you are not willing to walk?

Are you encouraging them to live a life that is pure and holy...yet your life is reserved for what you want to do and desolate? Empty....without purpose or passion?

How can you ask them to walk where you have not walked and to do what you are not willing to do? How can you tell others what is right and yet you live according to the flesh and the things that penetrate your flesh or inspire your flesh to move?

It's time for the things that you do to become real to you. To be real and reflect in your walk...in your talk...in your life.

When you tell someone to walk in peace...you need to walk in peace. When you tell someone to walk in love...you need to walk in love. People desire to do as you do and not just say what you say. The greater witness...the best example...is I
n what you do. We are quick to say something...but based on the experience of life...it all comes back to what
are we doing?

What is it that we do when trials come our way? We tell others to stand...to wait...God will come through. But we panic. We move according to our flesh. We remove ourselves from God's provision by what "we" say and what "we" do.

We have to understand the realness of God. God is not a figment of our imagination. He is real. He is real in us...He is watching our responses to life. Whether we pursue or whether we turn back. Pursuing to recover everything that the enemy has stolen through your thought process and your mindset. The way you have set your mind to believe.

Understand today...that the restoration and provision is in the pursuit. We should live out our lives in a constant pursuit of God. When you pursue something...you run after it with all your heart, mind, and soul...with everything within you. The sole purpose of a pursuit is to capture and retrieve.

Move forward today. Passionately pursue the plans and purposes of God. Let today be a new day. A day where you retrieve the promises of God and as you retrieve His promises...His love, grace, and mercy will overtake you.

Prayer Request Blog

2nd Post Today.....See Word Of Encouragement Below.....

You will see in the upper right hand of the blog page links to http://www.dailymomentswithgodprayer.blogspot.com/.    This page was created for anyone who would like to submit a prayer request.      The prayers requests can be e-mailed in and will be posted on the site so that we can pray as a collective body.    For the word says "where two or more touch and agree .... it shall be done".   There will also be a "Prayer Focus" posted daily.....so that we can touch agree for this world as a whole.   

So please submit your prayer requests and the requests of friends, family, and loved ones.....so that we can touch and agree.   

There is POWER in praying the WORD OF GOD over your life and the lives of those around you.   

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